Setting a rich text label on a Spark Button control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 22, 2010 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set a rich, multi-format text label on a Spark Button control by subclassing the Spark Button control and creating a custom Button skin which uses a RichText label display skin part.

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Creating blinking text on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On August 13, 2010 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can create a blinking text effect on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4 using a simple property animation with the Animate and SimpleMotionPath classes to tween the alpha property.

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Setting the line height on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the line height on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4 by setting the lineHeight style.

 

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Setting a text indent on the Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On February 19, 2010 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the text indent on a Spark List control in Flex 4 by creating a custom item renderer using the RichText control and setting the textIndent style.

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Dynamically adding paragraphs to a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can dynamically add paragraphs to a TextFlow in a Spark RichText control by creating a new SpanElement (<span/>) and ParagraphElement (<p/>) object and then adding the spans and paragraphs to the textFlow object using the addChild() method.

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Displaying HTML formatted text in a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On October 6, 2009 · 12 Comments

The following example shows how you can set HTML text in a Spark RichText control in Flex 4 by converting the HTML string to a TextFlow object using the static TextConverter.importToFlow() method and setting the textFlow property.

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Setting tab stops on a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On August 26, 2009 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can use tab stops on a Spark RichText primitive in Flex 4 by setting the tabStops style.

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Setting text in a Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On August 11, 2009 · 14 Comments

The following example shows a few ways you can display text in a Spark RichText control in Flex 4 using the TextFlowUtil and TextConverter classes.

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Importing a text flow from an XML object in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On June 25, 2009 · 10 Comments

The following example shows how you can import a TextFlow object from an XML object in Flex 4 by using the static TextFlowUtil.importFromXML() method.

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Truncating text with the Spark RichText control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On May 27, 2009 · 7 Comments

The following example shows how you can truncate text in the Spark RichText control in Flex 4 by setting the maxDisplayedLines property and specifying the maximum number of visible lines.

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Creating a custom multi-column item renderer for the Spark List control in Flex 4

By Peter deHaan On March 9, 2009 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can create a multi-column custom item renderer for a Spark List control in Flex 4 by setting the itemRenderer property.

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